Category: Home Improvement
Designing & Furnishing the Family Practice Starting a family practice is a lot of work. When it comes to office layout and design, taking a little time in the beginning can save both time and work later. When leasing a new building that is still under construction, it’s possible to design the entire interior layout of the clinic. This will involve total design including plumbing, electrical, walls, flooring and everything involved in building and furnishing the interior. While this is a good way to design the family practice clinic of your dreams, it’s also a good way to empty your...
Energy Conservation Puts Money in Your Pocket How can homeowners save money just by sitting on their couch? It’s simple, by conserving heating and cooling energy just before you sit down. There are a number of easy and inexpensive things that can be done as do-it-yourself projects that will save hundreds of dollars per year. The easiest money saving strategy is to weather strip doors and windows with a “V” seal type weather stripping. The opening of the “V” should face towards the outside of the home. This will reduce draft in the house and retard heated or cooled air...
Perfectly Painless Tips For Home Improvement Projects Many people think that home improvement is impossible to do by themselves. Every year, month, week, and day people try to make improvements to their homes, only to fail miserably. Home improvement is not as difficult as people think. This article contains many easy ways to improve your home. A great home improvement tip is to always communicate to your partners what your plans are in the very beginning. You should make sure that all partners know what is expected of them beforehand so that there is no confusion and misunderstanding of their...
Turn Your House Into A Home With These Home Improvement Tips Performing your own home improvements doesn’t have to be overwhelming, but people experienced with remodeling, repairing, and improving their homes know that a few simple tips and tricks can make a huge difference. If you’re thinking of embarking on some new home improvements, bear the following tips in mind to make sure everything goes right and nothing goes wrong. Make sure that any contract you sign when buying a home has your interests at heart. You need to have time to get financing, arrange a home inspection and discuss...
Keeping Your Shower Stalls Clean and Tidy Your shower should be a nice, calming place to unwind, an oasis of comfort where you can wash away the day’s troubles along with the day’s dirt. Your morning or evening shower should relax you and make you feel clean and healthy. But, if the shower stall is always dirty, not only is it unattractive and unhealthy, it’s terribly distracting to your shower experience. There are few places in your house that are harder to keep clean than your shower stalls and glass shower doors. The water spots them, and the constant damp...
A Blank Canvas: A brief consideration of Modern Design Modern Design was born at the turn of the 20th century. But as design does, this movement acquired from its predecessors, namely the Bauhaus and International styles. Bauhaus was an architectural school founded in 1918. The faculty and students of the school would develop a style of architecture that favored simplicity and the integration of technology. International Style became the term used once the ideas of the Bauhaus began to catch on around the world. Swiss architect, Le Corbusier and his idea of an open interior became the basis of International...
Choosing And Buying Inexpensive Laminated Flooring A laminate floor is a composite floor with either a chipboard or HDF core, bonded to a film of wood-effect veneer and covered with a laminated surface. Although it may look like wood veneer flooring, it’s not. Most laminate floors feature a photographic representation of wood grain and, unlike wood veneers, laminates cannot be sanded or refurbished once it starts to show wear. In terms of aesthetic appeal, it’s hard to beat laminates or wood-look overlay floors. They offer great value, plus they’re warm underfoot, flexible and have their good looks last a long...
How To Choose the Right Radiators For Your Home Just 20 years ago, choosing a central heating radiator was a no brainer. You chose a white, rectangular radiator made of steel or cast iron because that’s all they had. Nowadays radiators have become home decoration items in themselves and you have a huge choice of styles, colours and materials. But appearance aside, you must take many factors into account before ordering. With Radiators being one of the most important elements of central heating installation, you need to get this procedure right. Here are some factors you should bear in mind...
Online Landscape Architect CEU Courses Courses available for landscape architects are in various topics like BMPs for the landscape, fresh air with fresh interior, healing garden design and outdoor room design. All the CEU courses have been approved by Florida board of landscape architecture. 1. BMPs for the landscape: It is one of the online landscape architecture CEU courses which offer methodologies to preserve natural resources. It is a 4 hour online continuing education course for landscape architects. This course helps the landscape architect to design new landscapes or renovate existing ones without affecting the natural resources. It also helps...
Cut Costs, Increase Comfort The cost of keeping cool is on the rise. Energy prices, at historic levels last year, continue to climb as global demand for energy increases and the country recovers from hurricane-related disruptions to domestic oil and natural gas production. Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) manufacturers are responding to the challenges of increased energy costs by offering homeowners air-conditioning units that deliver new energy efficiency standards and reduce your energy usage. For example, York®, a Johnson Controls Company, encourages consumers in search of an energy-efficient HVAC system to consider the York Affinity™ series of air conditioners. The...
